Looking for 8Tb HDD recommendations

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
R

rocks911

Distinguished
Jul 8, 2010
129
0
18,680
I am completing my first build and am in need of 8 Tb HDD's.

I have an ASUS Strix Z370 - E mobo mounted in a Fractal R6 case with a Noctua cooler. I will use this PC mostly as a server, both in my home network and on the web (PLEX/Emby) and might game a bit.

Paramount to me is reliability. Ive been looking at 7200 rpm HGST's, WD gold's, WD red's... and many many more. I dont necessarily need these spinning every minute of every day so Im not sure about enterprise HDD's because as I understand it they are always spun up.
Is there a definitive source of information about reliability/failure rates?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
 
Solution
failboat
backblaze is a decent place to check hdds for low speed NAS.
they stopped using WD for the most part. they were priced higher but without better reliability.
seagate offers the best value. their drives across the board have gotten a lot better in the past 2 yrs.
HGST offers the best reliability for a premium.

make sure you know what you are buying. the web is packed full of white labels. some of these are $20/TB, but they aren't new.
make sure to check who the seller is and what they are selling you. drive pricing is driven by demand. some older models still have high demand/$, because inventory is low and ppl have to drop the same model into their raids.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q2-2018/
Sort by date Sort by votes
Installed a 6TB WD Red october 2014 and installed 4TB worth of steam games on it. Have not had an issue with it and i leave my computer on 24/7 last time it was shut down was when i moved from my Gen4 to Gen8 cpu around the first of the year. So the drive has been running for almost 4 years now.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
backblaze is a decent place to check hdds for low speed NAS.
they stopped using WD for the most part. they were priced higher but without better reliability.
seagate offers the best value. their drives across the board have gotten a lot better in the past 2 yrs.
HGST offers the best reliability for a premium.

make sure you know what you are buying. the web is packed full of white labels. some of these are $20/TB, but they aren't new.
make sure to check who the seller is and what they are selling you. drive pricing is driven by demand. some older models still have high demand/$, because inventory is low and ppl have to drop the same model into their raids.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q2-2018/
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom